COLUMNS
Ian Robertson
Photo by Kristen Loken
Playlist
1.Mozart: Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail – "Ach ich liebte." Kathleen Battle, James Levine & Metropolitan Opera Orchestra
2.Schubert: Impromptu, Op. 90, No. 4 in A Flat Major (excerpt) Vladimir Horowitz, piano.
3.Verdi: Otello – "Quell' Innocente un Fremito" (excerpt) – Soloists, chorus and orchestra of l'Opera Bastille, Myung-Whun Chung, conductor.
4.Mozart: Le Nozze di Figaro, K. 492, "Che Soave Zeffiretto" – Kiri Te Kanawa, Lucia Popp, London Philharmonic, Sir Georg Solti, conductor.
5.Donizetti: La Fille du regiment – "Ah! Mes amis" (Excerpt) – Juan Diego Flores, Orehestra dell'Academia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Robert Abbado, conductor.
6.Messaien: Trois Petites Liturgies de la Presence Divine –III. "Psalmodie de l'ubiquite Par Amour" – Orchestra philharmonique de radio France, Myung-Whun Chung, conductor.
7.Verdi: Otello – "Ave Maria" – Renata Scotto, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Gianandrea Gavazzeni, conductor.
8.Beethoven: String Quartet No. 13 in B flat major, Op. 130, IV "Alla danza tedesca" – Takacs Quartet.
9.Beethoven: Fidelio – "Prisoners Chorus" (excerpt) – Hungarian radio Chorus, Nicolaus Esterhazt Sinfonia, Wolfgang Glashof, conductor.
10.Vivaldi: Gloria, III "Laudamus te" – S. F. Boys Chorus, Ian Robertson, conductor.
11.David Conte: "An Exhortation" - S. F. Boys Chorus, Ian Robertson, conductor, Charles Calhoun, piano (created for and performed at President Obama's inauguration).
12.Verdi: Il Trovatore, "Anvil Chorus"- Chorus and Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala di Milano, Claudio Addado, conductor.

